Large gilt wood glass-fronted reliquary frame housing the first-class ex panno a stigmatibus cruentato (from a cloth bloodied by the stigmata) relics of St. Padre Pio. A very large fragment of the cloth relic is affixed under a portrait of the Saint to a red silk ground profusely decorated with an elaborate gilt paperolle ornamentation and identified in Latin on a typeset cedula label as Ex Panno a Stig. Cruentato S. Pii a Pietrelcina (from a cloth bloodied by the stigmata of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina). On the back, the frame is secured with a crisscrossed red silk ribbon, held in place by four seals of red Spanish wax bearing an imprint of a coat of arms of the Congregation of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Known as the Claretian Missionaries). The relic is accompanied by the original matching authentics document issued by the Postulator General of the Order on June 16, 2002 - on the very day of his canonization.
Saint Padre Pio, also known as Saint Pius of Pietrelcina (†1968), was an Italian Franciscan Capuchin, friar, priest, stigmatist, and mystic, now venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church. Padre Pio became famous for exhibiting stigmata for most of his life, thereby generating much interest and controversy. He was beatified in 1999 and canonized June 16, 2002 by Pope John Paul II. His feast day is celebrated on 23 September and he is considered a patron saint of Pietrelcina, Italy, civil defense volunteers, and adolescents.